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Learning From Failed Experiments

The messy aspects of doing science...

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Data-Driven Inquiry in the PBL Classroom

Linking maps, graphs, and tables in biology...

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From DNA to Proteins

Learning tertiary folding through problem solving...

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Making Science Relevant

Using socio-scientific issues to foster critical thinking...

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Could Your Food Be Contaminated?

Mycotoxins in feed and food products...

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Editor’s Corner: It’s Critical

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Focus on Physics: Care in the Classroom: This Teacher’s Odyssey

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. The department editor describes his career as a teacher....

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Career of the Month: Volcanologist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This issue describes Adam Soule's career path to becoming a volcanologist....

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Right to the Source: From Inconvenience to Inspiration

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This issue discusses Benjamin Franklin’s May 23, 1785, letter to George Whatley about bifocal glasses....

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Waves Sound Great!

First graders explore what makes sound through a 7E learning cycle....

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Agree/Disagree T-charts

Supporting young students in scientific argumentation and modeling...

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Understanding by Design

Using the Understanding by Design model and NGSS in concert to plan and instruct in science...

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We Are Engineers!

Engineering design activities for preschoolers introduce practices and encourage scientific habits of mind....

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Editor’s Note: Planting and Practicing

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Guest Editorial: Addressing Common Questions About 21st-Century Science Teaching

An early childhood science educator shares answers to commonly asked NGSS questions....

Assessment Performance Expectations Science and Engineering Practices

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The Early Years: Making Sense of Their World

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this issue students document the apparent movement of the Sun by making and recording two daily observations for a period of time and looking for a patter...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Inquiry NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Important Impacts

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. In this issue younger students investigate and determine that different types of plants have different needs, which depend on the environment in which they grow. Older students iden...

Elementary 5E Instructional Materials

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Formative Assessment Probes: Is a Brick a Rock?

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This issue explores a probe about lines of agreement with opposing views....

Elementary Earth & Space Science Assessment NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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The Poetry of Science: Dimensions of Science

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways. Students explore a poem about science....

Elementary General Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Literacy

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Teaching Teachers: The Language of Science in the Reading and Writing of Student Scientists

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. This article serves as an introduction to the different genres used in the work of doing science. The authors offer information about each and examples of how they differ in pu...

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Engineering Encounters: How Can We Store Water During a Drought?

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue shares information about a sustainability engineering design problem for fourth graders....

Elementary Earth & Space Science Engineering Citizen Science

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Methods and Strategies: Seeds of Practice

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This issue discusses how to modify 5E inquiry lessons to amplify science and engineering practices....

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Inspiring Student-Driven Observations

Use low-cost temperature loggers to explore Earth science concepts through student-designed experiments....

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The Temperature-Sensing Lunchbox

Teach electricity and circuitry while students build a working model of thermal energy transfer....

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Connect-the-Engineer Activity

Help students make connections between the four main branches of engineering—electrical, chemical, mechanical, and civil....

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Illuminating Food Webs

Assign students specific tasks to complete a maker jigsaw electric circuit that models energy flow and transfer in a food web....